Liam Scarlett’s raunchy staging of the novel for Queensland Ballet is partly a response to its distance from London, he says It’s not often you see sex on top of a coffin on stage, but t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMThe actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac Alexis Michalik has much in com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMThe annual Reims Scènes d’Europe festival showcases contemporary creation from around Europe. This year, it is focused on emerging artists from Spain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AMA new theatrical work by Christophe Honoré and an adaptation of a novel by Didier Eribon see prominent French gay artists reclaim their origins with striking honesty.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AMThe Canadian stage director has seen some of his productions derailed by accusations of cultural insensitivity. In a new show in Paris, he can’t resist pointing to his own suffering.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMThe “Japonismes 2018” season in Paris offers an intriguing, if occasionally puzzling, window onto Japan’s rich theater scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMLa Scala Paris opened with a production in which the playwright Yasmina Reza also acts. But a theater focused on new writing in French from abroad faces an uncertain future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMStaatsoper Unter den Linden, BerlinAlexei Ratmansky’s reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s problematic ballet raises an uncomfortable questionA quiet revolution has been under way in the ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMJustice — its rhetoric and its travails — is at the heart of several new theater productions in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48AMHe has put an Isis fighter’s mother in the Ghent Altarpiece and restaged a murder. Now the Swiss director plans to get radicalWhen Milo Rau first saw the Ghent Altarpiece, one detail leapt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMThomas Ostermeier and Krystian Lupa present works at the city’s major playhouses at the beginning of a new theater season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMPrague’s Letni Letna shows that circus, once dismissed as lowbrow entertainment, can be as potent as any performance genre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:12AMMany visitors to Paris take in a cabaret. But it gives them a strange view of the city, women and what theater is, our critic says.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AMDespite some eye-catching dramatics, the paucity of female directors and protagonists at the most important event in the French theater calendar sticks out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMPhia Ménard’s work perplexes show programmers and audiences alike. Her latest production will have its premiere at the prestigious Avignon theater festival in France.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AMContrasting approaches to France’s national playwright have been on view this month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMTwo plays in Paris deal with angry and violent themes. But only one is a success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54AMParis is full of exhibitions and talks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the student uprising. But the theater world’s contribution has been remarkably subdued.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12AMThree theatrical productions in Paris show that legends can still speak to audiences today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40AMTheaters in France and in the English-speaking world couldn’t be more different. But they can learn from each other, as three productions in Paris show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:52AMThe mood is downbeat in two plays by the Swedish playwright Lars Noren currently on stage in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40AMThe proportion of French plays written and directed by women is low. But four Paris productions show a great diversity of talent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:31AMYasmina Reza wrote “Bella Figura” for the Schaubühne in Berlin, and the Moscow Art Theater commissioned Pascal Rambert’s “Actrice.” The two authors are now directing their works o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18AMRecent productions in the French capital examine the response to terrorism, deep loss and questions of national identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMThe Avignon Festival is a central event in the French theatre calendar. Every July, hundreds of productions are presented between the official
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